My Work For the Steemit Community Got Stolen Again!
Two days ago, InvestorPlace Media, for whom I provide daily guest contributions, published an altcoin article that I worked diligently on. Featuring some of the best Bitcoin alternatives, I also included STEEM and the Steemit network. I genuinely believe that no cryptocurrency portfolio is complete without exposure to this blockchain social-media platform.
Here's the link to MY original article -- https://investorplace.com/2018/01/4-bitcoin-alternatives-that-you-need-for-2018/#.Wll5iXlG2M8
Nevertheless, one of the ugly effects of a decentralized platform is that you can get away with bloody murder if you fail to protect your own work. I discovered this when Steemit user "lokeshlgl" blatantly ripped off my work, and made money with it. Were it not for my flagging, and reporting the issue to @steemcleaners, this jerk would have been rewarded for MY original work!
Sadly, this is not the first incident, and I doubt that it will be the last. As a professional financial and business columnist, I live or die from the traffic that my content generates. Yes, I get extremely angry about plagiarism because it forces me to compete with distributed copies of my own articles.
I already have a hell of a time competing with CNBC, The Street, or Seeking Alpha. I shouldn't have to compete with my plagiarized "self."
Another source of frustration is that STEEM enforcers, such as @steemcleaners, are seemingly ineffective at policing real problems. However, on more than one occasion, @steemcleaners has accused me of plagiarizing myself!
My biggest issue with this latest incident is that I wrote a mainstream article (it's also been picked up by Yahoo Finance) featuring our Steemit network. Lately, I've witnessed an explosion of traffic for my InvestorPlace pieces, so I've definitely positively impacted STEEM.
It just rubs me the wrong way that, as a thank you, I'm plagiarized, and not given due credit. I will have to seriously reconsider my position in promoting Steemit should this plagiarism epidemic worsen.
Remember, I'm not just getting hurt: I work with an amazing team of editors, administrators, and technicians, all pushing to promote world-class content. By stealing others' original work, we are hurting everyone involved in making that work possible.
I enjoy your artical dear ..Waiting your next post..
It's hard to protect copyright on a decentralized block chain system. Steemit has made strides with dedicated people (and bots) that check content for uniqueness. But if an article is spun and rewritten, it's sometimes hard to detect. Don't be discouraged.
This was not spun or rewritten...this was blatant copy-and-paste plagiarism, where the author, the editorial team, and the marketing team that keeps InvestorPlace afloat were denied compensation. Any bot worth a damn could run a quick analysis, and determine easily that this was a word-for-word theft.
Just flagged the plagiarize post too and upvoted your comment on it.
Thank you, I appreciate that!
looks like plagiarism isn't very effective on the platform - nice catch. I looked at the dudes profile - doesn't look like he's very effective at all with his copy cat style.
Personally i didn't find this "pro report" to be so enlightening - though i do appreciate your efforts to promote steem.
I do think you could polish your steem promotion skills - I say this as I read your article from many months ago about steemit the god crypto, and i do think you were really on point with that article. In fact i found it to be quite brilliant.
Cool to see you here blogging - there's something to be said about creating a consistency in reporting/blogging